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Bracha L. Ettinger (also known as Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Bracha Ettinger, Hebrew: ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר) is a renowned painter, theorist and psychoanalyst born in Tel Aviv. Ettinger was based in Paris from 1981 to 2003, and she is working mainly in Europe in academic as well as art fields.

Ettinger received her Ph.D. in Aesthetics of Art from the University of Paris VIII, a D.E.A. in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VII, and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She is the initiator of the Matrixial Trans-subjectivity theory (or simply "The Matrixial"). Her most prominent and comprehensive book regarding this theory is The Matrixial Borderspace (2006).

Artist

Bracha Ettinger's paintings, photos, drawings and notebooks have been exhibited extensively in major museums of contemporary art across the world.

Among the venues Ettinger presented in:

• The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp .
• Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (ARS 06 Biennale, 2006).
• Gothenburg Museum of Art (Aletheia, 2003).
• Villa Medici, Rome, (Memory, 1999).
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem , (Routes of Wandering, 1992).
• Haifa Museum & Theater .
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Kabinet, 1997).
• The Pompidou Centre (Face à l'Histoire, 1997).
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Body, 1997).
• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (Inside the Visible, 1997).
• Museum for Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan (Oh Mama, 1997).
• Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, (Inside the Visible, 1997).
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, (Inside the Visible, 1997).
• Whitechapel Gallery, London (Inside the Visible, 1996).
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israeli Art Now, 1991; Feminine Presence, 1990).

Ettinger's One-person exhibitions:

• The Drawing Center, NY (2001).
• Centre for Fine Arts (The Palais des Beaux Arts), Brussels (2000).
• Pori Art Museum, Finland (1996).
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995).
• The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Oxford (1993).
• The Russian Ethnography Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia (1993).
• Le Nouveau Muséem, IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (1992).
• The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais (1988).
• The Pompidou Centre, Paris (1987).

Psychoanalyst

Bracha L. Ettinger is a regarded theoretician, working at the intersection of human subjectivity, feminine sexuality, psychoanalysis, art and aesthetics. She is a senior clinical psychologist, and a practicing psychoanalyst. Her artistic practice and her articulation, since 1985, of what has become known as the matrixial theory and trans-subjectivity have transformed contemporary debates in contemporary art, psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Bracha L. Ettinger is member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP). She is the Marcel Duchamp Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at the Media & Communications Division, European Graduate School (EGS) , Saas-Fee.

Publications

Ettinger is author of several books and more than eighty psychoanalytical essays on what she has named matrixial trans-subjectivity. She is co-author of volumes of conversation with Emmanuel Levinas, Edmond Jabès, Craigie Horsfield, Felix Guattari and Christian Boltanski. Her book Regard et Espace-de-Bord Matrixiels (essays 1994-1999) appeared in French in 1999 (La lettre volée), and has been published in English as The Matrixial Borderspace (2006, University of Minnesota Press, edited by Brian Massumi and forwarded by Judith Butler and Griselda Pollock). Ettinger is one of the leading intellectuals associated with contemporary French femininst psychoanalytical thought alongside the works of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. The journal, Theory Culture & Society , dedicated an issue to her work in 2004.

Recent Publications

• "Diotima and the Matrixial Transference: Psychoanalytical Encounter-Event a Pregnancy in Beauty". In: Across the Threshold: Explorations of Liminality in Literature. Edited by C. N. van der Merwe and H. Viljoen. New York: Peter Lang. 2007.
• "From Proto-ethical Compassion to Responsibility: Besidedness, and the three Primal Mother-Phantasies of Not-enoughness, Devouring and Abandonment". Athena: Philosophical Studies. Nr. 2 (Vilnius: Versus). 2006.
• "Com-passionate Co-response-ability, Initiation in Jointness, and the link x of Matrixial Virtuality". In: Gorge(l). Oppression and Relief in Art. Edited by Sofie Van Loo. Royal Museum of Fine Art. Antwerpen, 2006.
• "Gaze-and-touching the Not Enough Mother" In: Eva Hesse Drawing. Edited by Catherine de Zegher, NY/New Haven: The Drawing Center/Yale University Press. 2006.
• "Matrixial Trans-subjectivity". Theory Culture & Society – TCS, 23:2-3. 2006.
• "Art and Healing Matrixial Transference Between the Aesthetical and the Ethical." In catalogue: ARS 06 Biennale. 68-75; 76-81. Helsinki: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. 2006.
• "Fascinance. The Woman-to-woman (Girl-to-m/Other) Matrixial Feminine Difference". In: Psychoanalysis and the Image. Edited by Griselda Pollock. Oxford: Blackwell. 2006.
• Conversation: Craigie Horsfield and Bracha L. Ettinger. September 2004. In: Craigie Horsfiel, Relation. Edited by Catherine de Zegher. Paris: Jeu de Paume, 2006.
• "Art-and-Healing Oeuvre." 3 X Abstraction. Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher, 199-231. NY/New Haven: The Drawing Center/Yale University Press. 2005.

Other Activities

Since 2005 Ettinger is an active member in Physicians for Human Rights (PHR-Israel) initiated by Dr. Ruchama Marton. Dr. Ettinger contributes to the organization as a clinical psychologist, attending patients in needed areas in the Palestinian occupied territories at the west bank. Ettinger is a strong critic of the Israeli occupation of 1967.

See Also

• Félix Guattari

External Links

• Bracha Ettinger's Metramorphosis.org.uk Selected biographical details & recent work.
• Ettinger speaking on The Matrixial Borderspace at the European Graduate School, video.
• Information on Ettinger's recent conferences and
• Ettinger's text and images samples from Ephemera.
• Ettinger's biographical information and images in feminist context
• Theory, Culture and Society Journal dedicated to the work of Ettinger.

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